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Route of the A627(M)

The Oldham to Rochdale motorway isn't exactly a photo stop on the tour bus. It isn't really very impressive at all. Unless you're a fan of deep cuttings, you might not even notice that you'd been on a motorway, because it's very short too.

The most interesting point is the M62 interchange, which has "provision for a future flyover". Since this was built in the 1970s, the chances of that flyover being built have shrunk so as to be almost invisible, and what we are left with is a big square roundabout with A627(M) traffic stopping at the traffic lights. The traffic lights wouldn't, of course, be needed if they'd build the damned flyover.

Perhaps the lack of urgency to connect its two halves together is explained by the 1962 SELNEC Roads Plan, the document that proposed this motorway to begin with, which describes it as two seperate roads with two purposes: the Broadway Extension (Broadway being the A663 leading away from the motorway's southern end) and the Rochdale Spur. Only so much traffic was ever expected to go straight across the roundabout.

Despite being rather dull, this motorway manages a tiny little same-number spur to connect with the A664. Or does it? Pathetic Motorways has some evidence to suggest that the spur is (or was) numbered A6138(M).

Factfile

Start Oldham (A627)
Finish Rochdale (A627)
Passes None
Length 6 miles
Terminates None
Spurs None
Meets M62

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Construction Timeline

When the various parts of the A627(M) were built, listed in chronological order.

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1972 Entire motorway

Exit List

All the junctions and destinations along the route.

Junction   Northbound               Southbound
4 Rochdale
Sudden
(A58)
Milnrow
(A664)
Retail Park






(A58)
NORTH
(Crossroads)






(A664)
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3 Manchester
Bolton
M62 Link (M60 Link)
Leeds
Hull
M62 Link
M62
(M60)
(Roundabout Interchange) M62 Manchester
Bolton
M62 Link (M60 Link)
Leeds
Hull
M62 Link
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2 Castleton
Middleton
(A664)
(A664) (Roundabout Interchange)(Roundabout Interchange) Castleton
Middleton
(A664)
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2 miles, 2 lanes Up   Down 2 miles, 2 lanes
1 N/A (Roundabout Interchange)
A663 (M60)
SOUTH
A663

A627






Manchester
Failsworth
A663 (M60 Link)
Royton, Shaw
A663
Oldham A627
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With thanks to Peter Anderton, Chris McKenna and Paul Martin for information in this section.